Commit 1224e376 authored Nov 25, 2008 by Rusty Russell Committed by Ingo Molnar Nov 26, 2008

sched: avoid stack var in move_task_off_dead_cpu, fix



Impact: locking fix

We can't call cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked() with the rq lock held.
However, the rq lock merely protects us from (1) cpu_online_mask changing
and (2) someone else changing p->cpus_allowed.

The first can't happen because we're being called from a cpu hotplug
notifier.  The second doesn't really matter: we are forcing the task off
a CPU it was affine to, so we're not doing very well anyway.

So we remove the rq lock from this path, and all is good.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Acked-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

parent 3d8cbdf8

kernel/sched.c

+0 −4

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -6126,8 +6126,6 @@ static int __migrate_task_irq(struct task_struct *p, int src_cpu, int dest_cpu)
		*/
		static void move_task_off_dead_cpu(int dead_cpu, struct task_struct *p)
		{
		unsigned long flags;
		struct rq *rq;
		int dest_cpu;
		/* FIXME: Use cpumask_of_node here. */
		cpumask_t _nodemask = node_to_cpumask(cpu_to_node(dead_cpu));
		@@ -6146,10 +6144,8 @@ again:

		/* No more Mr. Nice Guy. */
		if (dest_cpu >= nr_cpu_ids) {
		rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags);
		cpuset_cpus_allowed_locked(p, &p->cpus_allowed);
		dest_cpu = cpumask_any_and(cpu_online_mask, &p->cpus_allowed);
		task_rq_unlock(rq, &flags);

		/*
		* Don't tell them about moving exiting tasks or

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